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It’s pronounced “bait”

Posted on September 28, 2005 By Tom 2 Comments on It’s pronounced “bait”
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It’s amazing to me that people who have  no problems with shrink, shrank, shrunk, freeze up on "shr" when it comes to crustaceans.

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2 thoughts on “It’s pronounced “bait””

  1. deb says:
    September 28, 2005 at 1:43 pm

    HA!
    amazing bit of lingual trivia…

    Reply
  2. Olivier Blanchard says:
    October 4, 2005 at 2:50 pm

    ‘Nuclear’ seems to stump some people too.

    Reply

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